ok, so im an idiot.. nevermind.. ;) I figured out my mistake..
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, jason wrote: > hey, im trying to stick toms boot onto a usb key drive.. > My thinkpad supports booting from it, but I cant seem to get it to work.. > Heres what I did.. > 1. got the tomsrtbt-2.0.103.ElTorito.288.img.bz2 > and uncompressed it.. > made an iso image with it > mkisofs -b boot/tomsrtbt-2.0.103.ElTorito.288.img -c boot.catalog -o > bootme.iso myusb > > then did the dd if=bootme.iso of=/dev/sda1 (which is the usb drive) > > but I cant boot off of it.. > > when I mount the usb drive.. heres all I got.. > > [jason@zim tomsboot]$ cd /mnt/usb/ > [jason@zim usb]$ ls -al > total 10 > dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Jan 29 15:08 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jan 29 12:14 ../ > dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Jan 29 15:09 boot/ > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Jan 29 15:10 boot.cat* > [jason@zim usb]$ ls -al boot > boot boot.cat > [jason@zim usb]$ ls -al boot > total 2884 > dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Jan 29 15:09 ./ > dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Jan 29 15:08 ../ > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2949120 Jan 29 15:09 tomsrtbt.img* > [jason@zim usb]$ > > > > does this look right? what am I missing? > > regards, > Jason > >
